default rules directory <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>,
the custom rules directory <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename>
and the temporary rules directory <filename>/run/udev/rules.d/</filename>.
- All rule files are sorted and processed in lexical order, regardless
- in which of these directories they live. Files in
- <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> have precedence over files with
- the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>. This can be
+ All rule files are collectively sorted and processed in lexical order,
+ regardless of the directories in which they live. However, files in
+ <filename>/etc/udev/rules.d/</filename> take precedence over files with
+ the same name in <filename>/lib/udev/rules.d/</filename>; this can be
used to ignore a default rules file if needed.</para>
<para>Rule files must end in <filename>.rules</filename>, other extensions